Coupon Marketing – Internet Style

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Posted on 28th March 2011 by Tony in Business Advice

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Coupons are not a big deal in South Africa. Sure, you get the odd coupon here and there for a product or service, but nothing major – but elsewhere in the world, coupons are a huge deal – and it’s actually really good marketing for your business.

If you’ve been keeping an eye online lately, you’ll notice a flood of online coupon companies that have come to the fore, and some of their offerings are really good. Take Zappon’s offer today – R995.00 for a weekend away for two at a fancy hotel in Paarl valued at R5000.00.

Now if I owned a hotel/restaurant I would definitely be approaching one of these guys right now to ask them to promote a meal/special or holiday package … heck, I’m sitting here thinking “how can I get any of my products on their system”?

If you’re looking at trying something different with marketing your business, take a look at these sites here:

www.zappon.co.za

www.ubuntudeal.co.za

www.dealio.co.za

Disclaimer: Before anyone asks, I have not been paid by zappon or ubuntudeal or dealio to write this post. I just think that their products are worthy of mentioning…

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Are you a Late Night Operator?

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Posted on 11th March 2011 by Tony in Random

It’s 1:30am over here in Sunny South Africa. Well, not now, since now it’s 90 minutes past midnight and we’re certainly not that far South as to have 6 month days!

I’m sitting at my desk doing all sorts of bits and pieces for my clients when I thought about a meeting I had this morning with a new prospective client. She told me that she is also most productive at night.

Mmmh. Now I ask myself, are most entrepeneurs productive at night? And what is it during the day that makes you unproductive, and during the night that makes me productive?

For one, at night I don’t have skype/googletalk/MSN/mirc/email/phonecalls/sms/twitter/whatsapp bothering me (yes I have all those options available during the day!)

Also, it’s real quiet in the area – I can pretty much only hear the waves crashing on the shore – and that gives my mind time to think. And in my line of business I do need to be creative.

So are you a day person or a night person?

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